Agriculture.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Scales-Slaughter Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-656
Scope and Content
Recipes, photographs, books and publications, financial material, correspondence, scrapbook, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1833 - 1968
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Scales-Slaughter Family Papers
Paul Sellars Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-664
Scope and Content
Photographs, artifact and miscellaneous items documenting the Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, farm of the Paul Sellars family, and the Newbern and Miller families. Digital photographs document the farm and the family. An original stamp used for boxes of butter produced on the farm is an unusual artifact.
Dates:
1865
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Paul Sellars Family Papers
Shaw Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-12
Scope and Content
Papers of Thompson B. Shaw (1796-1854), plantation owner of Jefferson County, collected by the McKell and McCallum families.The Shaw family papers document the history of Jefferson County, Mississippi, planter Thompson Breckenridge Shaw (1796-1854) and his family. The collection includes Civil War letters, bills of sale for enslaved people, records of the cotton trade and the family plantation, a scrapbook, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, autograph books, daguerreotypes,...
Dates:
1818 - 1959
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Shaw Family Papers
Frank E. Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-94
Scope and Content
Collection of Frank Smith (1918-1997) includes the following: material pertaining to Mr. Smith's work with TVA; material accumulated as a result of his service on the Southern Regional Council; and materials for the five volume series he edited, Conservation in the U.S.: A Documentary History.
Dates:
1914 - 1973
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Frank E. Smith Collection
Jeannine Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-731
Scope and Content
This collection centers around Artesia, Mississippi, a small town in Lowndes County that is best known as the junction point for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Throughout its history, the town has had several historical points of interest, including Civil War hospitals, political uprisings, hay festivals, and famous restaurants. The collection contains history of the town and genealogical materials regarding local families, as well as Civil War service documents and reconstruction...
Dates:
1735 - 2008
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Jeannine Smith Collection
Thomas H. Smith Postal History Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-684
Scope and Content
Nineteenth and twentieth century post cards, stamped envelopes and correspondence.
Dates:
1810 - 2011
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Thomas H. Smith Postal History Collection
Aaron Spell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-582
Scope and Content
Papers of early Holmes County, Mississippi, pioneer Aaron Spell (1793-1853), who purchased land in the county in 1831. Included are deeds, cotton sales and transportation accounts and correspondence, records for purchases for goods, and court, tax and banking records. Papers document the cotton trade between Mississippi and New Orleans as well as economic conditions for Mississippi planters 1833-1949. Includes photos of Aaron Spell's son, Jeremiah Spell (1829-1906) and his wife Martha Ann...
Dates:
1833 - 1949
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Aaron Spell Papers
William Starling Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-17
Scope and Content
Papers of William Starling (1839-1900), Union soldier and engineer for Mississippi River levee systems. Content includes: diaries containing descriptions of Starling's activities as a planter and engineer and of a tour of Holland; manuscript of a chapter of a novel, draft of a book on the U.S. Government, and index to literature and literary and historic figures; notebooks pertaining to Starling's student days at New York University and presenting observations on the Mississippi River and a...
Dates:
1854 - 1900
Found in:
Manuscripts
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William Starling Papers
Mary Evelyn Starr Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-696
Scope and Content
Transcription of diary (1886-1889) of John Parrott (1845-1920) by Eloise Taylor of Sledge, Mississippi concerns his logging and daily activities around his camp, Mosquitoville, Mastodon Panola County, Mississippi. Also included are 4 digital files comprising Mary Evelyn’s research concerning Parrott and his family, and versions of her manuscript "Logging Out the Delta: From Mosquitoville to the Sardis & Delta Railroad" (University of Mississippi Press, 2015) and "Mr. Carrier's Line:...
Dates:
1886 - 2015
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Mary Evelyn Starr Collection
Boswell Stevens Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-132
Scope and Content
Correspondence, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, publications, and other records of Boswell Stevens (1896-1986), farmer of Noxubee County, Mississippi, and president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation (1950-1972). Among the many organizations with which he was associated were the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Cotton Council of America, the American Dairy Association of Mississippi, the Mississippi Federated Cooperatives, the Southern Farm Bureau insurance...
Dates:
1918 - 1986
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Boswell Stevens Papers